Improvement m bridle-bits



N0. 120,913, Patented NNN/4,1871.

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ALBERT VANAUKEN, OF LUDLOWVILLE, NEW YORK.

HVIPROVENIENT 1N BRIDLEBITS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,913, dated November 14, 1871.

.skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which the iigure is a side view of my improved bit, part being broken away to show the con struction.

My invention relates to hollow bridle-bits, perforated to allow a melted substance to eXude therethrough 5 and consists in the improved construction hereinafter described and subsequent ly pointed out in the claim.

A is the mouth-piece of the bit. B and C are p the rings into which the headstall-straps and the reins are buckled. The mouth-piece A is made hollow to receive the medicine, and lhas a number of small perforations, a', formed through its side through which the dissolved medicine or the vapor of the medicine may escape into the horses mouth. The rings B C are pivoted t0 plugs b c', one of which, as b', may be permanently attached to the end of the mouth-piece A. The other plug c has a screw-thread cut upon it to screw into a screw-thread cut in the inner surface of the end of the mouth-piece A to enable the said plug c to be conveniently detached when required for the insertion of the medicine. If desired both the plugs b o may be screwed into the ends ofthe mouth-piece A.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A perforated tubular bridle-bit, having its ends closed by screws formed on or attached to the cheek-pieces, as and for the purpose specified. ALBERT VANAUKEN. 

